Intel Phi PCIE Cards - 56+ cores coprocessor+ CUDA - Day dreaming

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Message 2042546 - Posted: 2 Apr 2020, 15:13:36 UTC

A little late to the party, however, I just saw these cards are getting cheap - I understand graphics cards are the best option for running Seti as well as you need one cpu core per card. My question is - could you have an infinity number of graphics cards used in conjunction with these Intel Phi coprocessors? (power requirements aside)

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Message 2042550 - Posted: 2 Apr 2020, 15:31:12 UTC - in response to Message 2042546.  

no, you can't use those cards for SETI, and I'm not aware of any BOINC project that can use them.

they would also be less efficient than just using a modern CPU or GPU.

the reason they are cheap is because they aren't really useful for anything anymore.
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Message 2042584 - Posted: 2 Apr 2020, 18:05:03 UTC - in response to Message 2042550.  

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking more towards the 1 CPU requirement per GPU then have 20+ GPUs on one system like the cheap P106-90 gpu.

I was just daydreaming and curious. :)

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Message 2042588 - Posted: 2 Apr 2020, 18:09:41 UTC - in response to Message 2042584.  

those cards are not "CPUs" they are coprocessors on a PCIe card. they would never be treated as a CPU anyway.
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